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Zero Dark Thirty
The film is suspenseful, dogged, relentless, and determined – amazing considering we already know the ending of this story about the 10-year hunt for Osama bin Laden.
"...No love interests, no backstories, no B-plot about Maya’s childhood: Zero Dark Thirty is as ruthlessly, relentlessly single-minded as..."

Jan. 11, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Snakes and Ladders
'The Man From Orlando' team recalls the high stakes of making their lo-fi first feature
"...Elrod, who spent a significant part of his childhood on his father's farm in Elgin, shrugs off the..."

Jan. 11, 2013 Screens Feature by Amy Gentry

VOD Watch
'Paul Williams Still Alive' trains the camera on the wrong guy
"...entirely. Many, including Paul Williams Still Alive director and childhood fan Stephen Kessler, assumed that Williams had died at..."

Oct. 16, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Beauty Is Embarrassing
You may not know his name, but you know Wayne White's artwork from Pee-wee's Playhouse or his MTV award-winning design work.
"...experience of the narrative, especially as White recounts a childhood car crash that put his mother in a 10-month..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Chicken With Plums
From the makers of the animated Persepolis comes this modern-day, live-action Arabian tale.
"...Satrapi’s graphic novels which tell the story of her childhood and adolescence in Iran prior to and during the..."

Sept. 21, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Trouble With the Curve

Despite its love of baseball lore, this film, starring Clint Easstwood and Amy Adams, is really a melodrama about the reconciliation of a father and daughter.

"...in the bleachers of minor-league ball fields throughout her childhood. In North Carolina, they run into Johnny (Justin Timberlake),..."

Sept. 21, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Med School Solution
A medical school, a teaching hospital, and a new health care system?
"...health. Here, medicine will need to work with early childhood education, public education, social work and even law enforcement..."

Sept. 14, 2012 News Feature by Mike Kanin

The Last Ride
The last few days in the life of Hank Williams are portrayed in this plausible film re-creation.
"...to finally throw off the last vestiges of his childhood typecasting. Although he appears a little too spick-and-span to..."

Aug. 31, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Confidence Game
In Bart Layton's slippery documentary 'The Imposter,' it's a battle between dupe or be duped
"...charming, and he tells you the story of his childhood and invites sympathy. But you know that this guy..."

Aug. 17, 2012 Screens Feature by Dan Solomon

Death Watch: Texas Set to Kill Mentally Disabled Man
Few hours remain for Supremes to step in
"...provided by members of Wilson's family and from his childhood friend, it is clear that Wilson was raised in..."

Aug. 7, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

High School
You come in hoping to toke on a big ol' fattie, but instead you find yourself wallowing in seeds and stems – again.
"...for the first time at the behest of his childhood friend Travis (Marquette), who has become a total pothead...."

June 1, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Air Head
KLBJ-FM shock jock Dale Dudley matures?
"...either. Besides, there's no point in writing about that childhood molestation incident. The episode is public knowledge, as is..."

May 4, 2012 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Delicacy
This French-language dramedy stars Audrey Tatou as a grieving widow who is trying to re-enter the flow of life.
"...other man, a co-worker named Markus (Damiens), visits Nathalie's childhood garden with her and imagines young Nathalie's evolution from..."

April 27, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Arcade Fire
Pastime becomes passion project becomes Pinballz
"...Growing up on the East Coast, he spent his childhood summers on the Maryland shore. "I'd be a beach..."

April 6, 2012 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Jiro Dreams of Sushi
The renowned Tokyo sushi master Jiro Ono is profiled in this artful documentary.
"...it's also made Yoshikazu regret, if only slightly, his childhood dreams of someday being a pilot. Apprentices come and..."

March 23, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
Even though it's primarily a cautionary ecological tale, this animated film is fun and visually pleasing.
"...grandmother (White) encourages him and stokes him with her childhood memories of life before the trees went away. Once..."

March 2, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

We Need To Talk About Kevin
Tilda Swinton stars as the mother of a teen rampage killer who has a complicated relationship with her son.
"...with an achingly painful picture of motherhood – and childhood – gone utterly haywire. Shunned by her neighbors, her..."

Feb. 3, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Albert Nobbs
This melancholy picture is distinguished by Glenn Close's vanishing act in the titular role.
"...of her/his charade. After having suffered through a miserable childhood and eventually having secured suitable employment in a Dublin..."

Jan. 27, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tomboy
In this French film a 10-year-old girl moves into a new neighborhood and pretends to be a boy because, well, it seems like boys just have more fun.
"...import is as casual as the summer afternoons of childhood that it depicts. It’s a story about gender identity..."

Dec. 9, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

My Afternoons With Margueritte
Gérard Depardieu plays an oafish man who bonds with a cultured older woman, who teaches him to read and alters his life.
"...she grows increasingly spiteful and feeble. Flashbacks to his childhood show young Germain (Yven) mocked as a dullard by..."

Nov. 4, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
The original material was shot by a Swedish TV crew but just now assembled into this documentary that has both vision and perspective.
"...mother, Mabel, on the painful specifics of his impoverished childhood...."

Oct. 21, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Step Right Up
The terror and the wonder of the Museum of the Weird
"...an actual tourist attraction just like those from his childhood? Because, let's face it, that kind of weird roadside..."

Sept. 9, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Dos Pocitos
Teatro Vivo teaches us how to preserve the past in a future South Texas
"...launch ecstatically into a series of stories from her childhood, each memory triggered by events that had just unfolded..."

Sept. 2, 2011 Arts Review by Adam Roberts

Darkness, Then Light
Amanda Eyre Ward on the story she always knew she would tell
"...was the new normal, with the seeming-safeness of her childhood home shattered forever. The story would grow more horrific...."

July 15, 2011 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

New on Burnet Road
A basket of new dining establishments serving everyday eats to everyday folks
"...Cutie Pies home. Here you will find all your childhood (and your mother's childhood) favorites – the lacy buttermilk..."

June 17, 2011 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

Nik Wallenda: Life on the Wire
In which we send an aerialist to talk to a stuntman. Whoa.
"...road with Circus Pages, it seems like a great childhood, actually. NW: It is, it is. I was doing..."

May 19, 2011 Arts Post by Raven Hinojosa

Paul
Two comic-book geeks (played by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost) encounter an alien (voiced by Seth Rogen) in Area 51.
"...(who bore more than superficial resemblance to Superbad’s screenwriters, childhood friends Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg). Paul, written by..."

March 25, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Jane Eyre
The foggy moors are palpable, the passions less so, but this new adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's oft-told story is a handsome addition to the canon.
"...credit, the screenplay includes many episodes from Jane Eyre’s childhood, distinguishing it from most other renditions that begin with..."

March 25, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cedar Rapids
A wonderful cast turns Cedar Rapids into a semisweet charmer that fluxes between edgy comedy and palpable pathos.
"...that he's having weekly sleepovers with one of his childhood teachers (the wonderfully deadpan Weaver). When his boss (Root)..."

Feb. 18, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Poser: My Life in 23 Yoga Poses
Two memoirs explore new parenthood and old childhoods with still-open wounds
"...be explained by Dederer's own recollections of an overweight childhood), and the book's end-epiphanies, while hard-fought, whiff of an..."

Feb. 18, 2011 Books Review by Kimberley Jones

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